Thomas A.C. Rennie MD Papers, 1933-1975

Summary

Creator:
Rennie, Thomas A. C. (Thomas Alexander Cumming), 1904-1956
Abstract:
This collection contains the papers of Thomas A.C. Rennie and has two series: Patient Files and Professional Activities.
Extent:
5 boxes 1.88 linear feet
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains the papers of Thomas A.C. Rennie and has two series: Patient Files and Professional Activities, which includes correspondence and biographical information, such as a list of publications, poems, and obituaries.

Biographical / historical:

Thomas A.C. Rennie (1904-1956) was born in Motherwell, Scotland and moved to Pittsburgh at the age of 6. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1924 and the Harvard University Medical School in 1928. He completed an internal medicine residency at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston from 1928 to 1929 and was a resident in medicine and instruction at the University of Michigan from 1929 to 1930. He then worked at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric clinic at John Hopkins Hospital from 1930 to 1941 before accepting a position at Cornell University Medical College in 1941, where he stayed until 1950. He organized a rehabilitation service for veterans during WWII, edited the International Journal of Social Psychiatry, and focused his research on schizophrenia. In 1950, he became professor of social psychiatry and developed a large project of social psychiatry at Yorkville in New York before his death at the age of 52 from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1956.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Folder titles and some individual folders contain Protected Health Information restricted by HIPAA.

Terms of access:

Written permission must be obtained from the Oskar Diethelm Library and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

Location of this collection:
DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy and the Arts
Weill Cornell Medical College
525 East 68th Street, Box 140
New York, NY 10065, United States
Link to repository site
Contact:
212-746-3728